Your Score: Week #4 of Winter 2025 Simulcasts

This Week in Anime - Is Anime Incest Really Wincest?

Jan 7, 12:00

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Chris and Steve open the forbidden door of incest romances in anime. ― Chris and Steve open the forbidden door of incest romances in anime. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discussion of the series ahead. Yosuga no Sora, Bakemonogatari, Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks...

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Love Live! Superstar!! Season 3 Anime Series Review

Jan 7, 12:00

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More superlative ideas occasionally break through, but overall, this is easily the weakest season of what had been the strongest series of Love Live! yet. ― The second season of Love Live Superstar felt like the kind of miracle the school idols of this franchise so frequently make happen. Classic Love Live series writer Jukki Hanada and director Takahiko Kyogoku built upon the smart foundation of Sup...

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Ghost of Tsushima: Legends Game Gets Anime Series in 2027

Jan 6, 21:46

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Star Wars: Visions director Takanobu Mizuno helms, Gen Urobuchi pens Kamikaze Douga anime ― Crunchyroll and game developer Sucker Punch Productions announced at Sony's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference on Monday that they are producing an anime series adaptation of Sucker Punch Productions and Sony Interactive Entertainment's Ghost of Tsushima: Legends game that will premiere exclusive...

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Crunchyroll to Launch New Manga App Later This Year

Jan 6, 21:32

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App to offer manga in English in U.S., Canada, with plans to roll out in other languages ― Crunchyroll announced during Sony's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference on Monday that it will launch a new manga app named Crunchyroll Manga later this year as a premium add-on to its subscription service. The app will launch first in English in the United States and Canada, but other language opt...

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Seirei Gensouki - Spirit Chronicles Season 2 Anime Series Review

Jan 6, 12:00

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With this second season, I am beginning to think that Yuri Kitayama’s original light novel series is simply a poor fit for animated adaptation. ― With this second season, I am beginning to think that Yuri Kitayama's original light novel series is simply a poor fit for an animated adaptation. That's not necessarily because the story is a bit hackneyed; it is, but that's hardly the problem here. The gr...

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Fate/strange Fake – Episode 1 (Special Airing)

Jan 5, 12:00

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This episode serves as an inversion to the start of Fate/stay night with a Saber that shouldn't have been summoned and a protagonist who outright refuses to become one. ― The 2023 special Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- began the story of Fate/strange Fake by introducing us to the various mages and their summoned heroes. It also laid down the ground rules for this story and how it deviated from ...

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The Worst Anime of 2024

Jan 5, 10:00

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It's time to cue the sad trombone. ― There's the worst anime of a respective season and there's "The Worst" of the entire year. Below are series that weren't just disposable and annoying; they failed so spectacularly that we couldn't stop thinking about it. ANN's critic choices are based on loose criteria for "worst;" below are series our writers found wholly disappointing despite initial first impr...

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You and Idol Precure♪ Anime Reveals Story, Cast, Staff, February 2 Debut

Jan 4, 19:43

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Misato Matsuoka, Minami Takahashi, Natsumi Takamori star in idol-themed entry ― TV Asahi and Toei Animation opened the websites for You and Idol Precure♪ (Kimi to Idol Precure♪), the 22nd main anime entry in the Precure franchise, on Sunday. The websites posted the anime's story introduction, cast, staff, and February 2 premiere. The story begins in Hanamichi Town with Uta Sakura, a second-year middl...

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Tying the Knot With an Amagami Sister Anime Series Review

Jan 4, 12:00